The Steady Aim: a Book of Examples and Encouragements from Modern Biography. IllustratedJ. Hogg & Sons, 1863 - 267 páginas |
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... Brindley a madman ; the Barton aqueduct - 9 . Quotation from Mr. Smiles - 10 . Canal engineering ; the Grand Trunk canal - 11 . Brindley's premature death ; his character - 12 . A contrast ; Lawrence Earnshaw . 97-107 EPILOGUE . - 1 ...
... Brindley a madman ; the Barton aqueduct - 9 . Quotation from Mr. Smiles - 10 . Canal engineering ; the Grand Trunk canal - 11 . Brindley's premature death ; his character - 12 . A contrast ; Lawrence Earnshaw . 97-107 EPILOGUE . - 1 ...
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... Brindley , than of Apelles , the painter , or Phidias , the sculptor . 2. The career of a successful engineer can hardly fail to be pregnant with lessons which the youthful student will do well to ponder . To attain eminence in so ...
... Brindley , than of Apelles , the painter , or Phidias , the sculptor . 2. The career of a successful engineer can hardly fail to be pregnant with lessons which the youthful student will do well to ponder . To attain eminence in so ...
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... Brindley , Smeaton , and Telford , to associate his name with canal - making , and he planned and accomplished some valuable works in this branch of his profession . The Kennet and Avon Canal is 57 miles long , with 48 locks , and an ...
... Brindley , Smeaton , and Telford , to associate his name with canal - making , and he planned and accomplished some valuable works in this branch of his profession . The Kennet and Avon Canal is 57 miles long , with 48 locks , and an ...
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... their phantoms rise before us , Our loftier brothers , but one in blood ; By bed and table they lord it o'er us , With looks of beauty and words of good ! JOHN STERLING , BRINDLEY'S EARLY YEARS , 97 JAMES BRINDLEY . 1. This.
... their phantoms rise before us , Our loftier brothers , but one in blood ; By bed and table they lord it o'er us , With looks of beauty and words of good ! JOHN STERLING , BRINDLEY'S EARLY YEARS , 97 JAMES BRINDLEY . 1. This.
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... Brindley's Tree . ' Brindley's father was a village labourer , supporting his family in the main by the proceeds of a small enclosure , or " croft , ' which he rented , and spending most of his time in shooting and hunting , and the ...
... Brindley's Tree . ' Brindley's father was a village labourer , supporting his family in the main by the proceeds of a small enclosure , or " croft , ' which he rented , and spending most of his time in shooting and hunting , and the ...
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Página 239 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Página 110 - Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must fall to sleep without his fame, And leave a dead unprofitable name, Finds comfort in himself and in his cause; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause: This is the happy Warrior; this is he Whom every Man in arms should wish to be.
Página 164 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Página 61 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Página 155 - ... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. On this occasion, for the first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting ; and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority....
Página 225 - YE vales and hills whose beauty hither drew The poet's steps, and fixed him here, on you His eyes have closed ! And ye, lov'd books, no more Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore, To works that ne'er shall forfeit their renown, Adding immortal labours of his own — Whether he traced historic truth, with zeal For the state's guidance, or the church's weal, Or fancy, disciplined by studious art...
Página 17 - ... exhausting : such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the...
Página 217 - But do not suppose that I disparage the gift which you possess ; nor that I would discourage you from exercising it. I only exhort you so to think of it, and so to use it, as to render it conducive to your own permanent good. Write poetry for its own sake; not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity : the less you aim at that, the more likely you will be to deserve, and finally to obtain it.
Página 238 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Página 259 - My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy...